Cigar-box-lid holder and display-ticket



c. s. GUNTER.

CIGAR BOX LID HOLDER AND DISPLAY TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 11. 1919. RENEWED JULY 30,1921.

1,390,125 Patented Sept. 6, 1921;

CHARLES SMITH GUNTER, 0F SPRUCE PINE, NORTH CAROLINA.

(lIG-AR- BOX-LIID HOLDER AND DISPLAY-TICKET.

Application filed October 11, 1919, Serial No. 329,909. Renewed July 30, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. GUNTER, a citizen of the'United States, residing at Spruce Pine, in the county of Mitchell and State of North Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Box-Lid Holders and Display-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to advertising devices and has for its principal object the provision of a device for holding a cigar box lid in such relation to the box body that the body will be disposed at an angle for more conveniently displaying the cigars.

An important object is the provision of a device of this character which will not only hold the lid of the cigar box in proper position for displaying the cigars without the use of any other securing means whatever, but which is also adapted to support a price ticket which will beheld by the device in such relation that it will lie in a plane parallel with the layer of cigars within the box so that the price will be most advantageously displayed.

An additional object is the provision of a device of this character which is formed from a single length of wire provided with two bends and which will consequently have the minimum cost of production and which will also be extremely simple in use.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view, the invention consists in the 'details of construction to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigar box having my device associated therewith, and

. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional View showing my device in side elevation.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my holder and a different form of price tag.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the letter A designates a cigar box and B designates the lid thereof. My device is indicated by the numeral 10 and comprises a single length of wire which is bent and rebent, as shown, to provide a relatively long arm 12, a relatively short arm 13, and a connecting portion 14. It will be observed that the short arm 13 is slightly inclined with respect to the long arm 12so that when the device is applied to the box by slipping it over the cover and the rear wall of the box, when the cover is swung entirely back Specification of Letters Patent.

1. These tags 15 may be Patented Sept. a, rear.

Serial No. 488,676.

against this rear wall, in the position shown, there will be suiiicient resilience between the two arms 12 and 13 to hold the device firmly associated with the box and to pre vent displacement thereof.

in commercial practice I would furnish with my device, and to go with each box of cigars sent to the retail dealer, a plurality of tags such as the one illustrated at 15 and these tags would of course bear different price indications, corresponding to the prices of the various popular brands of cigars. formed of card-board, paper, celluloid, or the like, and each has formed therein two holes 16 through which the arms 12 and 13 are passed prior to the engagement of my device upon the cigar box and its lid. If desired, I may use a simple flat tag illustrated at 17 in Fig. 3 and this tag has two holes 18 through which the member 10 passes the tag being disposed in substantially the same plane in which the top edges of the box lie.

When the device is applied, as clearly shown in the drawings, it will be quite obvious that not only will the cigar box he so supported as to display to greatest advantage the cigars therein but that the price will also be displayed in the most advantageous position to be'most easily read by the prospective purchaser.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is of course to be understood that I reserve the right to make such changes in the form, construction, and arrangement of parts as will not depart from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim A. cigar box attachment comprising a substantially U-shaped member formed of resilient wire havingarms of unequal length and slightly converging, said arms being engageable against the inner side of a cigar box wall and undersideof the lid when the lid is swung entirely open into engagement with the box wall upon which it is hinged, the bight portion of said member being disposed over the hinged edges of the box-wall and the lid, in combination with a tag disposable flat against said edges and provided with spaced holes for the passage of said arms.

In testimony whereof I afi'ix my signature.

CHAS. SMITH GUNTER. 

